"specificity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-specificity.wav Forms: specificities [plural]
Etymology: From French spécificité. By surface analysis, specific + -ity. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|spécificité}} French spécificité, {{surf|en|specific|-ity}} By surface analysis, specific + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun}} specificity (plural specificities)
  1. The state of being specific rather than general. Translations (the state of being specific rather than general): специфичност (specifičnost) (Bulgarian), especificitat [feminine] (Catalan), specificiteit (Dutch), specifeco (Esperanto), erityisyys (Finnish), täsmällisyys (Finnish), spécificité [feminine] (French), სპეციფიკურობა (sṗecipiḳuroba) (Georgian), Spezifizität [feminine] (German), ייחודיות \ יִחוּדִיּוּת (yiḥudiyút) [feminine] (Hebrew), specificità (Italian), specyfika [feminine] (Polish), specyficzność [feminine] (Polish), especificidade [feminine] (Portuguese), specificitate [feminine] (Romanian), специ́фика (specífika) [feminine] (Russian), especificidad [feminine] (Spanish), специфіка (specyfika) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-specificity-en-noun-o87ecmqX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 21 16 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 65 18 16 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 57 23 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 81 11 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 66 23 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 18 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 75 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 75 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 73 14 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 78 13 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 75 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 52 24 24 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 74 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 75 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 52 24 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 78 13 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 73 14 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 53 24 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 75 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 80 11 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 79 12 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 77 11 11 Disambiguation of 'the state of being specific rather than general': 94 3 3
  2. The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
    (statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
    Categories (topical): Statistics Coordinate_terms (binary probability): sensitivity [statistics, mathematics, sciences] Translations ((statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified): tarkkuus (Finnish), spécificité [feminine] (French), Spezifität [feminine] (German), סגוליות \ סְגֻלִּיּוּת (sguliyút) [feminine] (Hebrew), spesifisitas (Indonesian), specificitate [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-specificity-en-noun-T3knMIL- Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'binary probability': 2 91 7 Disambiguation of '(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified': 10 85 5
  3. The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:
    (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.
    Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-specificity-en-noun-RJX19WFL Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: specificness (english: much less common), individuality, particularity, peculiarity, singularity, specialty [obsolete], specificity

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Congress must set a clear standard: Police should prove with specificity what's on your phone before forcing it open, and only after the device's owner has consulted with a lawyer. Doing so would provide citizens a means to ensure police follow warrant requirements without sacrificing law enforcement's ability to pursue the crime they're investigating.",
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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
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    {
      "sense": "binary probability",
      "topics": [
        "statistics",
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        "sciences"
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "word": "allospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "aspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "bispecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "chemospecificity"
    },
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      "word": "conspecificity"
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    {
      "word": "diastereospecificity"
    },
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      "word": "enantiospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "heterospecificity"
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    {
      "word": "heterosubspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "homospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "hyperspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "immunospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "interspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "intraspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "isospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "monospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "multispecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "neospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "neurospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "organospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "overspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "paraspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "polyspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "regiospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "serospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "stereospecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "subspecificity"
    },
    {
      "word": "unspecificity"
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    {
      "word": "xenospecificity"
    }
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      "name": "uder"
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        "2": "specific",
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        "plural"
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        {
          "ref": "2024 October 14, Patrick Eddington, James Craven, Police Want the Password to Your Phone:",
          "text": "Congress must set a clear standard: Police should prove with specificity what's on your phone before forcing it open, and only after the device's owner has consulted with a lawyer. Doing so would provide citizens a means to ensure police follow warrant requirements without sacrificing law enforcement's ability to pursue the crime they're investigating.",
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        }
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: sensitivity"
        }
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        "The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:",
        "The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified."
      ],
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          "statistics",
          "statistics"
        ],
        [
          "probability",
          "probability"
        ],
        [
          "binary",
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        ],
        [
          "classification",
          "classification"
        ],
        [
          "test",
          "test"
        ],
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          "negative",
          "negative"
        ]
      ],
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        "The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:",
        "(statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "statistics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
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        "The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:",
        "The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ]
      ],
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        "The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:",
        "(medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/spɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/",
      "tags": [
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        "US"
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "much less common",
      "word": "specificness"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:specificity",
      "word": "individuality"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:specificity",
      "word": "particularity"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:specificity",
      "word": "peculiarity"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:specificity",
      "word": "singularity"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:specificity",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "specialty"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:specificity",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "specifičnost",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "специфичност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "especificitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "specificiteit"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "specifeco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "erityisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "täsmällisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spécificité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sṗecipiḳuroba",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "სპეციფიკურობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Spezifizität"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "yiḥudiyút",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ייחודיות \\ יִחוּדִיּוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "word": "specificità"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "specyfika"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "specyficzność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "especificidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "specificitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "specífika",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "специ́фика"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "especificidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "specyfika",
      "sense": "the state of being specific rather than general",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "специфіка"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified",
      "word": "tarkkuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spécificité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Spezifität"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "sguliyút",
      "sense": "(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "סגוליות \\ סְגֻלִּיּוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified",
      "word": "spesifisitas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "(statistics) probability in a binary classification test of a true negative being correctly identified",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "specificitate"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "sensitivity and specificity"
  ],
  "word": "specificity"
}

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